Teresa Garcia-Marques

Teresa Garcia-Marques is a Full Professor at ISPA - Instituto Universitário in Lisbon, Portugal, where she serves as an Integrated Member of the Cognition Team. With over 130 publications and significant contributions to social and cognitive psychology, her academic career spans several decades of research excellence and scholarly impact.

Dr. Garcia-Marques specializes in social cognition, with particular expertise in how feelings drive affective processes and influence cognitive monitoring systems. Her research examines familiarity and fluency effects on judgments, how social presence shapes monitoring processes using cognitive tasks (Stroop, memory, truth judgments, temporal judgments), and extends to person perception and persuasion. She has made groundbreaking contributions to understanding the relationship between processing fluency and truth judgments, the impact of social presence on cognitive performance, and the emotional dimensions of information processing.

Her recent work demonstrates an evolving research program that maintains core interests while expanding into new territories. The 15 most recent publications reveal consistent themes in processing fluency, cognitive control, and social judgment, but also show diversification into clinical applications (grief interventions), consumer behavior, and sports psychology. This intellectual trajectory reflects both theoretical depth and methodological versatility, with studies ranging from controlled laboratory experiments to meta-analyses and clinical trials.

As an academic leader, Garcia-Marques maintains an active research laboratory focused on cognitive and social processes. Her work has been cited over 38,000 times, reflecting significant impact in psychology. She continues to mentor emerging researchers while sustaining a robust publication record that bridges theoretical insights with practical applications across multiple domains of human cognition and social interaction.